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Tippett: King Priam [DVD] [1985]

DVD ~ Nicholas Hytner

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Directors: Nicholas Hytner
Format: Classical, Colour, DVD-Video, PAL, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language English
Subtitles: German, English, French, Spanish
Region: All Regions
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification: Exempt
Studio: ARTHAUS
DVD Release Date: 29 Oct 2007
Run Time: 138 minutes

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

ASIN: B000XUFHJQ
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 66,955 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)
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Michael Tippett's opera which follows the King Of Troy and the long and bloody Trojan War.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent effort for its day, 20 Aug 2008

By	John Ferngrove "Cirenor" (Hants UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

It was with great excitement that I discovered the release of this DVD a few weeks back. Priam is my favourite Tippett Opera, though I have never had the chance to see it, and know it only through the outstanding Chandos recording under David Atherton Tippett - King Priam.

It's been digitised from VHS with the usual haze that results, but until something more modern comes along this will do very well. Hence my title for the review. Also the musical recording is not perfect. The dynamics are quite extreme so you find yourself craning to hear some of the quieter passages. My guess is that the orchestra was not mic'd up particularly well. I would guess its been recorded with reduced orchestral forces as well, as I have to admit, a very initial disappointment as the blazing brass fanfare that opens the work, and so much sets the tone for the drama, sounded rather lame and insipid in comparison with what I am used to. However, once the singers got going all doubts were dispelled.

Priam is sung by Rodney MaCann and he holds the centre throughout with a superbly portrayed tragic nobility and an absolute charisma from start to finish. For me, the other standout character is Christopher Gillett who plays Hermes, and the significance of whose role was never quite so apparent to me until a direct visual experience.

The stage and set design are obviously low budget but nonetheless very effective and artistically convey the mood as the drama develops.

If you know the opera then this is a must have and any reservations you might have about possible datedness can be dismissed. If you don't know the opera then I would suggest starting with the Chandos recording because that makes it perfectly clear that you are listening to a 20th Century masterpiece.

One more point I will make here. Its customary for the anti-Tippett camp to snipe at his libretti. I will admit that his Jungian inspired operas like Midsummer Marriage and The Knot Garden have a comprehension hurdle to climb because the language of psychoanalysisi stands largely discredited today. For me, Priam of all of his operas has no overt psychoanalytic language, although a psychoanalytic interpretation of the plot arc is there to be seen if desired. The same people who complain of Tippett's libretti however continue to gush about Wagner's Ring, which don't get me wrong, I admire profoundly, but you can't tell me that his libretti are not at least as 'daft' as Tippett's and the motivations of whose characters never make any human sense whatsoever. A little gripe there.

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